Giuseppe De Gregorio biography

Giuseppe De Gregorio was an Italian painter. He was born in 1920 in Spoleto. Despite his father being a painter and his grandfather teaching painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, Giuseppe De Gregorio approached painting as a self-taught person.
From 1947 he participated in both collective and personal exhibitions and in 1948 wins the City of Orvieto Award. Initially influenced by Cubism, at the beginning of the fifties he joined the Informal.
In 1953 he founded, together with Filippo Marignoli, Giannetto Orsini, Ugo Rambaldi, Piero Raspi and Bruno Tuscan, the Group of Spoleto or Group of Six. In the same year the Spoleto Group established the Spoleto Prize, aimed at promoting young artists. On this occasion he was noticed by Bruno Sargentini of the Galleria L'Attico in Rome who began to represent him.
He took part in the VII Quadrennial National Art Exhibition in Rome in 1956, at the ninth in 1966 and at the eleventh in 1986. In 1964 he participated in the XXXII Venice Biennale and at the Premio Fiorino in Florence.
In this period he decided to move on to the representation of details of nature, loading it with symbolic meanings. This evolution ascribes him to the so-called Naturalismwith the recovery and insertion of natural subjects within the informal structure.
In 1974 he moved to Florence with his wife Rosa and daughter Daniela while remaining always linked to his hometown.
In 1977 the Festival dei Due Mondi dedicated a personal exhibition to him and in 1978 he created the poster for the XXI edition of the Festival. In 1986 and 1999 he created the poster for Umbria Jazz . In 1997 he definitively returned to live in Spoleto. Giuseppe De Gregorio died on 31 December 2007 in his home in Spoleto.